Tootfinder

Ran into a problem in prod?
Just generate a fake cloudflare error page and blame it on them - gives you time to fix.
#foss

#telegram is so shit, Ads, unable to block unknown invites, shit encryption if any.
And the foss community is just bending over backwards.
I have a #matrix server I’m happy to share with anyone who wants to move off of telegram.

This sounds like a really cool sci-fi idea: a language model that is special-purpose, cheap and energy efficient and not connected to the internet so it can be built into household appliances. It might be the positive "residue" of an AI bubble crash.
But will those household appliance companies do it? They'd have to let go of their internet connected fridges and data collection. Maybe it'll be the FOSS and 3d-printing community who does it.

Much thanks and heartfelt support to @… for writing up the kind of article that I, too, have been dreading to have to write: that absolutist OSS is bad and we protect the commons with fair licensing, non-commercial and otherwise

🎉 How FOSS Won and Why It Matters
#software

My talk at @… got accepted.
https://26.foss-backstage.de/session/disobey-foss-tools-to-fight-back-and-their-a…

Disobey: FOSS tools to fight back and their adoption.
TLDR: **Everyone** is trying to control your communication. The reasons vary from simple curiosity to pure commercial interest, all the way to using it to control one's thoughts. What tools exists to fight back and how we as a community can help for their adoption. A practical and fun talk to encourage you to act [...]

💬 #PlainText #Accounting with #hledger (FOSS for All presentation) | Plain Text Accounting forum

Tomorrow (Tues, 11 Nov 2025) from 20:00 NZDT we're having a #Libre / #FOSS catch up at https://meeting.iridescent.nz…

«Kovid betrayed us with Calibre 8.16.2, and we as a community never should have let that happen, never have placed such a burden on individual generosity. The synthesis of these two truths, then, is nearly self-evident. There must be a new effort, free from AI encumbrances, that is built from the ground-up as a community effort. Something that can outlive the decisions of any one participant»
Glad to see more efforts on community-based FOSS governance!
https://blog.rereading.space/rereading-because-books-are-art-and-art-is-labor

to everyone asking foss maintainers to finally publish a new version: as a teenager, have you ever been asked by someone to clean your room after you decided to do it yourself? 😇

I forgot this existed :)
#foss #opensource

#SchleswigHolstein: Mailsystem komplett auf #FOSS umgestellt
https://gnulinux.ch/schleswig-holstein

Help test #deltachat calls
https://support.delta.chat/t/help-testing-upcoming-delta-chat-release-with-calls/4220

Is it really foss?
Where Projects are Evaluated — To see if they're as free and open source as advertised. The software rights of users are continously (and often opaquely) being eroded by the desire of growth.
This website aims to push back against that by bringing transparency to FOSS software users.
💻 https://isitreallyfoss.com

"Getting Hired to Work on FOSS - The Do-s, Don't-s and Pitfalls for Everyone Involved" is what my friend Till Adam talked about at #Akademy2025. He also has a short section on why Free Software is worth more compared to proprietary software, so you should take higher rates and principals should be willing to pay more. And he draws from experience of contracts that

This is one of the many reasons I use #Bandcamp and #Qobuz.
I actually own my #music, no corporate algorithm deciding what I “should” like, no invisible hand yanking albums away because some…

It's that time again! Tomorrow evening (Tue 9/12), 20:00 NZST is our monthly FOSS/Libre Tech catch up. Find us at https://meeting.iridescent.nz - all welcome! We'll be discussing relevant current events, sharing case studies, looking at new technologies, and how to make a living doing this stuff! Our mee…

Anyone know anything about solidagent.io?
They appear to be an EU hosted AI agent - in the sense that they have the trained models on their own platforms, rather than using an API so presumably queries etc stay on their servers.
Their statements of #privacy etc look good and the test queries I posted (on quite complex #coding problems) were very impressive, but I don't think it's strictly FOSS otherwise.
Would be happy to hear if others have good/bad experience with them as they seem quite new.
https://www.solidagent.io/privacy

"I suppose it will take time, but if XLibre carries the FOSS X server torch moving forward, folks will likely want it for these technical reasons."
Yep my completely reasonable just-asking-questions brother in FOSS, those folks sure do want to carry some torches, you got that right.
(car crash at <h…

Got the 🇨🇭 #SwissAI #Apertus model - one of the very few completely opensource LLMs - running locally!
Next step: finetuning on historical low-resource languages (like Middle High German).
#FOSS

Made a post on how I got here in this Linux and FOSS journey. Big thank you to all the community.
#foss

As a response to the ever-increasing enshittification of Firefox through AI, I just became a recurring sponsor for the @… project. We desperately need a viable alternative built for the future.
#firefox #servo #FOSS #AI

TFW: FOSS aerc is always more reliable than Apple Mail.
#Apple #Aerc #FOSS

Ich gehöre ja zu den priviligierten Menschen, die sich überlegen können, eine #Photovoltaik-Anlage auf das Dach zu stellen.
Seit Kurzem beschäftige ich mich nun mit dem Thema und bin froh, dass ich auf #OpenEMS gestoßen bin, ein

Austrian Ministry Kicks Out Microsoft in Favor of Nextcloud #foss

New Clean Website, Same Awesome Event - SCaLE 23x Call for Presentations
🗣️ Got a great talk idea? SCaLE 23x Call for Presentations is now open! Submit your session before Dec 1, 2025. Speak your FOSS truth!
👉 https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/23x/cfp

On W10 going EOL: It might seem cold but with how many times I've told people I know to look into Mint with encouragement on learning the habit of using FOSS software wherever you can and just getting told something along the lines of "I'll see how everything works out" only to see them still have everything on W10 a few weeks later, I think I'm just gonna sit back with my bucket of popcorn and wait for the fireworks. I've done all I could do lol.

Why do I volunteer? - A small article to celеbrate the International Volunteers Day
#FOSS

Or one could use LibreOffice or Apache OpenOffice and not be dependent on some distant service provider.
Online office suites confuse me. It’s unclear what *modern* problem they address. Sharing files is a solved problem. Common data formats exist. https://mastodon.social/@DevOpsPink/11

Tatiana Mikhaleva (@DevOpsPink@mastodon.social)
Attached: 1 image Proton rolled out Proton Sheets - a spreadsheet Google can’t peek into. Gemini: “Show me your data?” You: “No.” Sheets: also no, but in Swiss.🇨🇭🔐 End-to-end encryption, zero-knowledge, even file names get the Swiss-bank treatment. You open a spreadsheet - Big Tech immediately cries. Somewhere in California, an AI whispers: “But… my training data…” Privacy 1 : 0 AI https://proton.me/blog/sheets-proton-drive #Proton #Privacy #Encryption #CyberSe…

Tee-day #linux #sudo #foss

The kamikaze drone software world cannot continue to be dominated by the likes of Blackwater and Raytheon. #FOSS community, assemble!

Hi #FOSS and #VR community, I’ve got an Oculus Go headset and I’m looking for some advice.
Any recommendations for jailbreaking it, installing custom apps, or using it without needing a fucking Facebook account to load custom APK apps like NewPipe?
I remember having NewPipe installed o…

Tablecruncher was once a commercial CSV editor has now been made #foss by its author!
Super lightweight and pretty to look at: https://tablecruncher.com/blog/2025/tablecrunc…

This is why the OpenBastard team needs to do more community outreach and not just commit more PRs
#cloudflare #opensource #foss

"All programmers, from hobbyists to those working at Microsoft or Google, use open-source software, which is present in between 70% and 90% of the computer applications we use today"
#FOSS #DigitalSovereignty
https://english.elpais.com/technology/2025-11-30/adriana-groh-the-internet-works-thanks-to-a-shared-infrastructure-that-nobody-owns-but-that-we-must-take-care-of.html

My very first programming projects when I started self-teaching around 15 years ago were about accounting. I was unhappy with keeping track of expenses in a physical notebook, and the spreadsheet I made was also very limited. And existing #FOSS solutions like #GnuCash felt too weird for my use case and its…

Efficient Input-Constrained Impulsive Optimal Control of Linear Systems with Application to Spacecraft Relative Motion
Ethan Foss, Simone D'Amico
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.03423

Efficient Input-Constrained Impulsive Optimal Control of Linear Systems with Application to Spacecraft Relative Motion
This work presents a novel algorithm for impulsive optimal control of linear time-varying systems with the inclusion of input magnitude constraints. Impulsive optimal control problems, where the optimal input solution is a sum of delta functions, are typically formulated as an optimization over a normed function space subject to integral equality constraints and can be efficiently solved for linear time-varying systems in their dual formulation. In this dual setting, the problem takes the form …

I've just been reminded we're due for our October #libre catch up - tomorrow (Tues 7/10), 20:00 NZDT - at https://meeting.iridescent.nz - all welcome! We'll be looking at a few fully Free & Open Sour…

Breaking news: #Google ist ein #Arschloch
https://arstechnica.com/gad…

F-Droid says Google’s new sideloading restrictions will kill the project
F-Droid sees Google’s plans as a threat to FOSS apps.

IS THIS THE YEAR!!?? RAAAAAAA
#linux #foss

For those of you who are wondering where I have been, as I barely get any sort of attention on my artwork when I post, I have decided to focus my attention on bluesky instead.
I know, I know, Mastodon and the fediverse are meant to be unshackled and FOSS platforms, but I honestly need the engagement in order to increase the chances of receiving commissions, especially since I'm no longer getting food money from the government.

I just found out that in old planes, flight computers were programmed with audio cassette tapes 😯 which now makes me want to look up how data recording on MCs worked on the C64 (before my time).
I remember that in the 90s, I tried to run "play.exe word.doc" to get my SoundBlaster card to write to my cassette tape. Which of course didn't work.
I bet there is a FOSS project that backups and restores to audio cassettes.
Well, I guess now I know how I'll spend my…

Crosslisted article(s) found for eess.SY. https://arxiv.org/list/eess.SY/new
[1/2]:
- Efficient Input-Constrained Impulsive Optimal Control of Linear Systems with Application to Space...
Ethan Foss, Simone D'Amico

tfw you realize once again that’s there’s a lot fewer social contracts in FOSS than you abide to yourself

"Tech people, have mercy!"
Guess we should
https://pip.bearblog.dev/tech-people-have-mercy/

FOSS power user laptop choice in 2025:
"
* 998 people running [Apple] M1 from 2005
* many Lenovo/Framework/Dell users, everything runs great, battery is bad, sound and display are so/so
* 30 people use laptops from all corners of galaxy that no one heard of, they swear everything is great (probably not)
* a few billionaires who moved from M4 to M5, haven't had time to unpack it yet, seems to work fast!"

#openalt Czech #Foss office.

Unsere #Politiker machen Lippenbekenntnisse zu #digitaleSouveränität aber wenn's ums Entscheiden geht, dann verstehen sie die Rolle von #FOSS offenbar überhaupt nicht:
Analyse zum Di…

Explicit modelling of subject dependency in BCI decoding
Michele Romani, Francesco Paissan, Andrea Foss\`a, Elisabetta Farella
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.23247 https://

Explicit modelling of subject dependency in BCI decoding
Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCIs) suffer from high inter-subject variability and limited labeled data, often requiring lengthy calibration phases. In this work, we present an end-to-end approach that explicitly models the subject dependency using lightweight convolutional neural networks (CNNs) conditioned on the subject's identity. Our method integrates hyperparameter optimization strategies that prioritize class imbalance and evaluates two conditioning mechanisms to adapt pre-trained models to…

Some mornings I just wake up to find Microsoft being terrible once again, business as usual.
#Microsoft #FreeSoftware #FOSS

#vim hat heute Geburtstag!
https://mastodon.social/@itsfoss/115479105194109581

RE: https://alpaca.gold/@Jeremiah/115582068879659968
European Commission actively engaged with FOSS - free and open source software - to build different, read non-US, digital ecosystem 🧵

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #SonicReducer
Urine Idiot:
🎵 Urine Idiot Foss version
#UrineIdiot

😮‍💨
From: @…
https://mastodon.social/@Krishnamishra/115413344234799425

A few days left to propose a developer room at #FOSDEM
https://fosdem.org/2026/news/2025-09-21-call-for-participation/

FOSDEM 2026 - FOSDEM 2026 Call for Participation

*unfurls papers with a deep sigh* Today we acknowledge this is the traditional unceded ground of the "white-foss-bro" tribe

How the open web closes, FOSS edition...
We are running a contest to create a new logo for ASF #SpamAssassin, but because of the steps taken to consolidate wikis for #TheASF and protect the ASF Confluence instance from various malefactors we have yet to figure out how to allow submissions from pe…

I might be in #Brno on Sep-29. Anyone for a #foss beer?

Have to say Sharkey is beautiful :pika:
Here is my profile on Sharkey @…
#fediverse #Sharkey

And that's a wrap - the newly refreshed laptop has been handed over to teen with most of the packages functional. Thanks for following along on this @… installation journey with me and thanks to all #linux maintainers, forum contributors and FOSS advocates around keeping the system running.
👏 WE REALLY APPRECIATE YOU!👏
The final judgement won't be clear until Monday when the first log in at school happens but hopefully it will be successful, or the IT support is going to have to deal with some very salty comments (from me).
16/16
FIN

I just submitted talk proposals for @… and @…. It goes beyond my usual ramblings on what privacy #foss tools we must use and it covers the…

Don't miss this keynote by @… and @…!
> #SocialMedia: We Can Change the Defaults
📅 Th. 27 Nov. 2025 at 8 pm
online and #Amsterdam
> @…, … co-author of #ActivityPub, … will speak about the crisis technologists face. Why must we revise the default assumptions of the web 2.0 era? She will introduce the work @… is doing to make a positive future possible.
#SPUI25 #SaveSocial #Fediverse #OpenSource #FOSS #sovereignty #EuSummit25

If you are looking for good privacy respecting messaging and other apps, you could check my slides from @… conference here : https://

Are you ready for my talk at #Prague's monthly #DevOps meetup? My #dog is :)
#foss

RE: #SPUI25 #SaveSocial #Fediverse #OpenSource #FOSS #sovereignty #EuSummit25 #SocialMedia #SozialeMedien #bpb #x #Musk #Wisskomm #SciComm

Neues #Startpaket mit 72 IT-Dienstleistern im #Fediverse:
➡️ #OpenSource #FOSS #DigitaleSouveränität #EuroStack #IT #Software #Hardware #Business #BigTech #Cloud #Podcast #Groupware #Office #Communication

New #StarterPack with 72 IT service providers in the #Fediverse:
➡️ #OpenSource #FOSS #DigitaleSouveränität #EuroStack #IT #Software #Hardware #Business #BigTech #Cloud #Podcast #Groupware #Office #Communication

What did the 🇪🇺#EuSummit25 on #DigitalSovereignity achieve?
Find out live what digital experts, journalists & businesses are saying about the digital future of the #EU on this #Mastowall:
➡️ #EuSummit #SocialMedia #Meta #BigTech #Digitalgipfel #OpenSource #Foss #DataProtection #Datenschutz #omnibus #AI #Cloud #DigitalCommons